M9302 UNIBUS terminator

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M9302 terminator card

The M9302 UNIBUS terminator is a terminator for the UNIBUS; it provides all three functions of a UNIBUS terminator. The M9302 is a dual format card, intended for use in the two top (AB) sections of a MUD slot, or in a UNIBUS in/out slot.

It is a replacement for the original M930 UNIBUS terminator, with so-called 'SACK Turnaround' functionality added.

Note that as a result of the 'SACK Turnaround' circuitry, if there's any break in a bus grant line (perhaps a missing grant continuity card) at any point before it gets to the M9302, the M9302 will jam SACK on (hanging the machine so that it will not run at all; this is fairly easy to recognize and fix). That is because the resulting 'open' input to the TTL gate monitoring the grant line in the device immediately down-stream from the break (perhaps in the M9302) will float high, thereby looking like a permanent incoming grant, which will be turned around by the M9302 as a permanent assertion of SACK. (As mentioned, in many PDP-11 CPUs, that will freeze the CPU.)

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